Quotes from Sarah Brightman

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

I'm not flying to the moon. But when I've talked to people who have been up, you can tell it's really special because without fail a very special light comes into their eyes and they appear to be very fulfilled in some way and very calm.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful.

I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results.

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

I don't think I would get married again; I don't know if I'm a very good candidate because of all the touring I do.

I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

I'm an interpreter of music.

Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough, and I must begin again. I have to.

My fans want me with my hair.

Everybody goes up and does something in the private sector that they feel that they can do, and obviously I'm a musician and feel that one of my experiments - because I think there are many that you can do and that you're helped with the ideas of what you could do - yes, would be to see how I would sing in zero gravity.

I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.

We are all made up of stars and all of us are billions of years old - that's what I believe, at least.

When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.

Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I've gone through the medicals and the training and now I'm officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.